Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is an all around great congressman. He brought forth some great news about the Democrats passing the health care bill......soon.
Here are some very encouraging quotes from an interview he just gave.
the House may pass the Senate bill before any other action is taken -- a key concession to Senate Democrats.
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"The choreography gets a little complicated here, but the House will present a reconciliation bill. "It will be based on many of the principles that the president put forth to correct some of the problems the House and others have had with the Senate bill."
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"That may require us to pass the Senate bill first and then send the reconciliation bill to the Senate for them to pass," Miller said. "I think Sen. Reid believes he can put the votes together for that."
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Democrats eyed finishing work on healthcare in the next month
"That means that I would hope we get it done this month"
and finally
"When we take up the bill we'll have the votes. I think that will be relatively soon," he said. "I don't think there's any reason to wait any longer to do this."
This is important news. The whole thing now comes down to the task of counting votes. All that has been said about HCR has been said.
It's time to nut up....or shut up.
Full link to article is here.
Update:
Here is another quotes from Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.):
"This speaker has never brought a piece of legislation to the floor and failed to pass it," said Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), during a conference call with new media reporters on Friday. "And she is not about to start now."